Multilanguage Interoperability in Distributed Systems: EXPERIENCE REPORT (1996)
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@MISC{Maybee96multilanguageinteroperability,
author = {Mark J. Maybee and Dennis H. Heimbigner and Leon J. Osterweil},
title = {Multilanguage Interoperability in Distributed Systems: EXPERIENCE REPORT},
year = {1996}
}
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The Q system provides interoperability support for multilingual, heterogeneous component-based software systems. Initial development of Q began in 1988, and was driven by the very pragmatic need for a communication mechanism between a client program written in Ada and a server written in C. The initial design was driven by language features present in C, but not in Ada, or vice-versa. In time our needs and aspirations grew and Q evolved to support other languages, such as C++, Lisp, and Prolog. As a result of pervasive usage by the Arcadia SDE research project, usage levels and modes of the Q system grew and so more emphasis was placed upon portability, reliability, and performance. In that context we identified specific ways in which programming language support systems can directly impede effective interoperability. This necessitated extensive changes to both our conceptual model, and our implementation, of the Q system. We also discovered the need to support modes of interoperabilit...
